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If you want to play PC games, a GPU is an essential component. The more you spend the more capable your rig is of delivering the game as the devs intended it, at playable frame rates.
A £400 chair; a £500 mobo (do they really exist?) or a £250 mouse pad (does not exist!)See spoilerare not the same type of purchase. Those things are for people who just want to burn cash
Whereas a decent GPU is something all PC gamers will need, and they'll want the best one they can afford. Going forwards, games will only become more demanding.
Bascially, if you're a gamer, a GPU is not a luxury item. It's an essential. So crazy expensive GPU prices will basically price people out of this hobby. And when a mid-range 5th tier GPU from nV costs £300, I think that will make some people think twice. I know I have.
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So where does the magic extra come from when you have two cards that are stated to be $10 difference. Who puts this magic 'extra' on top? Gigabyte? OcUK? The tooth fairy?
I am just using basic math (which I totally suck at for reference) and seeing AMD state a MSRP of $239 and NVidia state a MSRP of $249, where does the extra for the NVidia card come from?
Cheers. I have neglected it a bit lately and need to get back on top but work work and gaming and reviewing is taking up all my time (and the occasional pub visit
Well going from Anandtech, the prices stated are $239 and $249
My head is starting to hurt but there is the proof and anything other than a tenner for the exact same cards is gouging (like I said in my first reply to you which I was replying to someone else anyways).
Gigabyte + MSI + Asus tend to make the same cooler for both AMD and NVidia, so realistically, they should be pretty much on par price wise when everything is equal.
My last response on this matter and if they are indeed £300 as stated by Marine, then something is very wrong and they just won't sell and rightly so.
If you want to play PC games, a GPU is an essential component. The more you spend the more capable your rig is of delivering the game as the devs intended it, at playable frame rates.
A £400 chair; a £500 mobo (do they really exist?) or a £250 mouse pad (does not exist!) are not the same type of purchase. Those things are for people who just want to burn cash
Whereas a decent GPU is something all PC gamers will need, and they'll want the best one they can afford. Going forwards, games will only become more demanding.
Bascially, if you're a gamer, a GPU is not a luxury item. It's an essential. So crazy expensive GPU prices will basically price people out of this hobby. And when a mid-range 5th tier GPU from nV costs £300, I think that will make some people think twice. I know I have.
They didn't say outperform, they said 'the performance of a 980'. So roughly on-par.
Considering sending my 1070 back, the rip off high cost is leaving a bad taste in my mouth.
The new gpu price point is getting way past ridiculous now-no matter how much it's defended by the same minority of spamming posters attempting to drown out the majority complaining.
£300 for only a gpu or £300 for the whole kit and it simply just works out the box leaving you nothing to do but turn it on and play.
All you 'crazy expensive GPU prices' defenders, enjoy your hobby as those ever increasing gpu prices pushes the consoles strength even further as the lead platform, leaving us with **** ports(in comparison to what theses games could really achieve) and next to no reason to jump on the PC platform as it's getting a way, way too expensive platform with little return now.
If you want to play PC games, a GPU is an essential component. The more you spend the more capable your rig is of delivering the game as the devs intended it, at playable frame rates.
A £400 chair; a £500 mobo (do they really exist?) or a £250 mouse pad (does not exist!) are not the same type of purchase. Those things are for people who just want to burn cash
Whereas a decent GPU is something all PC gamers will need, and they'll want the best one they can afford. Going forwards, games will only become more demanding.
Bascially, if you're a gamer, a GPU is not a luxury item. It's an essential. So crazy expensive GPU prices will basically price people out of this hobby. And when a mid-range 5th tier GPU from nV costs £300, I think that will make some people think twice. I know I have.
